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Lakhdhir, who has served on the academics andsocial committees of the council, has spoken outin protest of sexism and council faux pas.After she had resigned, Lakhdhir attended a weeklycouncil meeting to denounce a council forumadverisment that read, "Come Bitch at Us." Shecalled it sexist and offensive and demanded anapology, which she received...
Coming back once again to the Cardinal's speech, I listened to him give a brief summation of the points he had discussed and then he opened the forum to questions. He called first on a woman who inquired into actions of the Church which were unmistakably sexist in excluding women from the Church hierarchy. Curtly dismissing her question as outside the sphere of the evening's discussion, the Cardinal fielded another question; then he called on me. I brought up the apparent inconsistencies I was observing throughout his talk. Then I asked him to explain how, if the Church...
...talking about is unknown doesn't bother me in the least. As a matter of fact I have used this form since early in elementary school, long before I knew that sexism existed and that the exclusive use of the "he" pronoun was a part of that. The non-sexist use of language came naturally to me. I have to think (and it annoys me) if I wish not to use this form. To Mr. Wise such usage is a headache. I feel as much pity for him as I do for an ex-Klansman who finds it hard...
...friend, Mary, passed around some examples of sexist advertisements cut out of magazines, showing women being hung, women in pain, breasts airbrushed into icecubes in alcohol ads. Others circulated petitions asking us to write our congresspeople. A girl saw me scribbling in a notebook. "Reporter," she said and came over to my seat. She was covered in buttons, and showed me a few. One said, "Pro-choice and I Organize." You have to organize to be feared, she explained...
...mother-in-law (what else would a wife do?). The dish, 'mung-chowder gumbo' is like much of the play's intended humor--it never materializes. Aside from the failed attempts at comedy, the play strives to excite some reaction from an otherwise limp audience with a series of sexist jokes. Lines such as "you're my kind of woman...drunk" manage to elicit the requisite Ms. Manners half-smile and hollow titter from a tired audience...